Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

Portugal Conference

March 6, 199818 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

He is famous for a milk drop filmed at 4,000 frames a second. If you drop milk into coffee and it makes this beautiful pattern (See Figures 28- 31).

We asked our students to figure out if the drop that separates falls at the same rate as the drop that is still connected to the coffee.

Knowing some physics and surface tension we would guess that the surface tension will pull this bottom drop down and it will come back faster.

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